Convertibles

We like the Chevrolet Camaro SS so much we named it the Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2016. We cited value as one of the reasons we chose the Camaro SS as our best of 2016, but for 2017 it won't offer quite as much value. If ordering guides that have hit the web are any indication, the Camaro SS...

Bentley has teamed up with British pop art icon Sir Peter Blake for a new, one-of-a-kind take on the company's Continental GT V8 S Convertible. The brightly-colored droptop will head to auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on June 24, where Bonhams will sell it to the highest bidder to benefit...

Volkswagen's Beetle may be slated for discontinuation, if a Tweet from a trusted source is to be believed. Autoline recently Tweeted: "Good bye Beetle. VW to axe its iconic car at end of 2018. Sales are slowing to a trickle and VW needs more CUVs." It's not clear where the information came from...

Talk up the feel of the wind in your hair and the natural high of sunshine as you will; but in the world of convertibles, there are those that cruise the scene, and there are those that help make the scene. The 2017 S-Class Cabriolet lineup is without question in the latter group. It’s a true...

Fresh from its world debut at the recent Geneva Motor Show, the Abarth version of Fiat’s new 124 Spider has just touched soil in the United States. The car, which for our market is known as the 2017 Fiat 124 Spider Elaborazione Abarth, is on show this week at the 2016 New York Auto Show. The...

A retractable hardtop Miata may not have been a total surprise by the time the 2017 Mazda MX-5 Miata RF pulled on to the stage at this week's 2016 New York Auto Show. After all, Mazda Europe leaked pictures of the car before the official introduction, and they were picked up by several outlets...

Mini has revealed the performance-oriented John Cooper Works version of its redesigned convertible, and announced pricing for the rest of the convertible lineup. The base Mini Cooper convertible will run $26,800, the Cooper S will cost $30,450, and the John Cooper Works model will be priced at...

Mercedes-AMG has applied its V-8 treatment to Mercedes-Benz's all-new C-Class Cabriolet to create the C63 Cabriolet. Making its world debut this week at the 2016 New York Auto Show, the handsome droptop offers a choice of engine tunes rated at 469 or 503 horsepower in the C63 and C63 S...

At a press conference today, BMW outlined some of its future plans for the coming years. Among those plans is the launch of a convertible version of the i8 plug-in hybrid sports car, which will likely be labeled the i8 Spyder. BMW has already unveiled two i8 Spyder concepts, the most recent being...

With its new Cascada, Buick is back in the convertible game after a lengthy absence, but all is not what it seems. This new Buick Cascada droptop, with its clean lines and big wheels, wasn’t penned in California. It wasn’t engineered in Detroit. It wasn’t even built in the...

Back in December Porsche announced that the updated Boxster (and Cayman) will adopt the 718 name and swap the current naturally aspirated flat-sixes for turbocharged four-cylinder engines, albeit still with a flat "boxer" design. At the time, we could only speculate on the power output, and now we...

The Fiat 124 Spider is distinguished from its Mazda MX-5 Miata sibling by retro styling but now there's another difference that's more than skin deep. Mazda doesn't offer a Mazdaspeed version of the current MX-5 but Fiat set its in-house tuner and motorsports arm to work on the 124. Debuting at the...

Mercedes-Benz's ever-broadening lineup will now include a shapely four-seat convertible based on the brand's previously revealed C-Class Coupe. Debuting today at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show and set to go on sale later this year as a 2017 model, the new C-Class Cabriolet marks the three-pointed...

Does the world need a pint-size crossover that happens to be a convertible? Probably not, but such an attention-grabbing concept could give Volkswagen some traction ahead of the arrival of one of its two newly-planned crossovers positioned below the Tiguan, which for its second generation has grown...

Jaguar’s F-Type was already one of the most compelling sports cars on the market thanks to a combination of stunning good looks, one of the best-sounding V-8s in production, plus a tasteful, well-built cabin. Now the British brand has thrown supercar performance into the mix, albeit without...

Rolls-Royce is hard at work developing an all-new aluminum platform that will eventually underpin its entire portfolio of cars, including a new SUV. The first model to be spawned from the platform will hit the market in early 2018 and will either be the SUV or a replacement for the Phantom...

You may recall that we recently reported on Mercedes-Benz’s decision to group its ‘AMG Sport’ models like the C450 AMG as official Mercedes-AMG products, and together with the reshuffle rechristen the cars with a “43” designation to better reflect their positioning in...

I hear it all the time: "I put my sports car away for the winter. It doesn't do winter. It can't. It's rear-wheel drive." I've even heard this from Mazda Miata drivers. To every one of them I say this: You're wrong. Full disclosure: Mazda flew me out to beautiful Crested Butte, Colorado, put me up...

The F-Type was Jaguar's first true sports car in a generation, and the legendary firm hit it out of the park. So much so, we pretty much find the car to be perfect, particularly in R performance guise. For 2017, the package gets even better, as it's a bit cheaper to step up to an F-Type and...

Despite only a very small percentage of people actually being able to afford it, the Rolls-Royce Dawn turned out to be one of the surprise stars of the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show where scores of fans lined up to take photos with it. The luxurious convertible doesn’t start deliveries until April...